11/V.

Comrade Bryukhanov! I am sending cipher 273. Read it carefully, note down the figures for yourself, and return it to me.

It is necessary that you draw up a precise plan for utilization, that is, the distribution of foreign products from 15. V. to 15. VI.

First priority: Petrograd and Moscow.

Review this plan after each dispatch concerning new significant purchases.

Send me the first such plan.

Fish thus-and-so.

Beans (has the matter been decided?) thus-and-so.